Towel-rack.



J. W. PEYTON.

TOWEL RACK APPLICATION FILED MAR. 23, 1910.

966,854, Patented Aug. 9, 1910.

V p- I Inventor JOHN W. PEYTON, OF WASHINGTON, INDIANA.

TOWEL-RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 9, 1910.

Application filed March 28, 1910. Serial No. 551,973.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JoHN W. PEYTON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Washington, in the county of Daviess and State of Indiana,have invented a new and useful Towel-Rack, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to a towel rack and it consists in the novelconstruction and arrangement of its parts as hereinafter shown anddescribed.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple device of thecharacter indicated which is adapted to effectually hold a towel at oneend portion thereof whereby the other end portion is free for use.

With this object in view the rack includes a yoke preferably formed fromresilient wire or rod and having at its ends clamping members adapted tocooperate with the intermediate portion of the yoke for holding thetowel in position upon the rack. The yoke is provided with a bailwhereby the device may be hung upon an appropriate support.

In the accompanying drawings ;Figure 1 is a perspective view of thetowel rack with a towel supported thereby. Fig. 2 is a verticalsectional view of one of the clamping members of the rack cut on theline 2-2 of Fig. 1.

The towel rack consists of an approximately U-shaped yoke 1 formed fromresilient wire or rod and having the upper portions of its branchesinwardly bowed as at 2. From the bowed sections 2 the end portions ofthe yoke are bent outward and downward as at 3 then inward as at 4: overthe intermediate portion of the said yoke. The extremities of the endsof the yoke 1 are bent laterally as at 5 and extend transversely acrossthe intermediate portion of the said yoke. Blocks 6 are pivotallymounted upon the extremities 5 of the ends of the yoke l and at theirlower ends are provided with grooves 7 which are adapted to cooperatewith the intermediate portion of the yoke 1 in securing a towel inposition upon the same.

A bail 8 is pivotally connected at its end by means of eyes 9 whichreceive the inbowed sections 2 of the end portions of the yoke l. Saidbail is provided at a point intermediate of its end with a loop 10 whichis adapted to receive a nail or other supporting device.

In application an end portion of a towel 11 is passed over theintermediate portion of the yoke l and the grooves 7 at the lower endsof the clamp blocks 6 are positioned upon the upper portion of the towelover the intermediate portion of the yoke .1. The resiliency of thesections 3 and 4 of the end portions of the yoke 1 is sufficient to holdthe blocks 6 in frictional contact with the towel whereby the same isheld in position upon the intermediate portion of the yoke. A towel ifsupported or confined at one end is free at its other end portion foruse.

Having described the invention what I claim as new and desire to secureby Let ters-Patent is A towel rack comprising a yoke formed fromresilient material having at the upper portions of its branches inwardlybowed sections which are continued into outwardly disposed sections andinwardly disposed extremities, a bail having eyes which pivotallyreceive the inwardly bowed sections of the branches of the yoke andwhich is normally held in spaced relation to the intermediate portion ofthe yoke by said bowed sections, and a block pivotally attached to eachof these inwardly disposed extremities and located between the bail andthe intermediate portion of the yoke and adapted to cooperate with theintermediate portionof the .yoke to form clamps.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN W. PEYTON.

lVitnesses:

C. M. Means, W. C. CAMP.

